This week my guest was Candita Clayton the most organized person I know. Candita's company, Your Life Organized, can be an incredible help when you are selling your home. An organized home can reduce stress, minimize cleaning time, and help make everyday a little smoother. Selling your home doesn't have to overwhelm you and can actually be [...]

Twenty years ago, there was only This Old House to guide the do-it-yourselfer. Today HGTV, The Home and Garden Television network, is viewed by over 90 million households. Energetic hosts like Krista Watterworth have created wonderful programs that entertain as well as inform. The explosive growth of Home Depot and Lowes, one of HGTV's [...]

High school seniors financial literacy scores have gone from bad to worse as announced by the Jump$tart Coalition last week. High school seniors from across the United States took the Jump$tart Coalition survey and the mean score was 48%, a decrease from 52% in 2006. Rhode Island students received a mean score of 48% in 2008, a slight [...]

Spring is here in Rhode Island and everything is starting to come alive again, including the market! We actually got some positive economic news this week. Existing homes sales rose 2.8 percent for single family homes and 3.7 percent for condominiums last month, adding to the speculation that the housing cycle may finally be bottoming out. [...]